Body of James Parker, the Negro
Who Knocked Down Assassin
of President McKinley, Is
Carved Up as Exhibit for
Medical Students.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Special.—Before a class of
students at the Jefferson Medical College the body of James B. Parker, colored,
was placed upon the dissecting table Thursday. Parker was the man who beat Louis
Czolgosz to the ground and disarmed him after the latter had fired two shots
into the body of President McKinley at Buffalo on September 6, 1901. At the
time of Mr. McKinley’s assassination Parker was a Pullman car porter, but public
praise soon turned his head, and he gave up his position on the railroad. Parker
died penniless at the Philadelphia hospital, where he was a patient in the insane
department.
After the shooting at Buffalo Parker was praised
by everybody, as it was thought for a time that his act had saved the President’s
life. Senator Mark Hanna, of Ohio, presented Parker with a [ch]eck for $1,000
in appreciation of his b[ra]very.
Form [sic] that time Parker began to wander around.
He was a hard drinker, and finally wound up in the insane asylum.